Buffy Wicks is a fan of:
Politicians
* Speaker Karen Bass
* Eric Garcetti
Posted on 09/21/2009 9:12:57 AM PDT by STARWISE
*NEA conference call full audio and transcript here**
Should the National Endowment for the Arts encourage artists to create art on issues being vehemently debated nationally?
That is the question that I set out to discuss a little over three weeks ago when I wrote an article on Big Hollywood entitled The National Endowment for the Art of Persuasion?”
The question still requires debate but the facts do not.
The NEA and the White House did encourage a handpicked, pro-Obama arts group to address politically controversial issues under contentious national debate. That fact is irrefutable.
But some have claimed that the invite and passages, pulled from the conference call that inspired the article, were taken out of context. Context is what I intend to establish here.
On August 10th, the National Endowment for the Arts, the White House Office of Public Engagement, and the Corporation for National and Community Service hosted a conference call with a handpicked arts group. This arts group played a key role in Obama’s arts effort during his election campaign, as declared by the organizers of the call, and many on the call played a role in the now famous Obama Hope poster.
Much of the talk on the conference call was a build up to what the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) was specifically asking of this group. In the following segment, Buffy Wicks, Deputy Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, clearly identifies this arts group as a pro-Obama collective and warns them of some “specific asks” that will be delivered later in the meeting.
(Excerpt) Read more at bighollywood.breitbart.com ...
This is illegal. People should go to jail
This is a power grab by the President (fascism).
Democrats would never, ever say this is going nowhere. They would repeat, endlessly, those two themes for years. They got Scooter Libby that way and there was no underlying crime in the Valerie Palme affair.
Conservatives shoot themselves in the head with their self-fulfilling prophecies of failure.
whoa...can’t wait to read and listen later.
Anything stand out?
Resignation?
It has a lot more tie ins than just the NEA. “Buffy” has all kinds of ties between her, ACORN, serv.gov & the OBAMA election committee (link from another FR post)
http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2009/09/new-evidence-of-obamas-ties-to-acorn.html
Three different Brietbart web pages, you can access them all at biggovernment.com
Time to come in out of the rain, because that will never happen.
Buffy Wick
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Post from Buffy Wicks’s Blog:
Barack Obama Tells SF: “The Time is Now!”
By Buffy Wicks - Nov 16th, 2007 at 2:43 am EST
Last night, I witnessed something special. Nearly 7,000 other people did too. At around 8:30 on Wednesday evening, Barack Obama delivered an impassioned speech addressing “the fierce urgency of now.” Speaking to a youthful audience at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, Barack Obama once again wowed and inspired.
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/buffywickscafield/Cx5J/commentary
Quote of Buffy Wicks to NEA: “We’re actually running the government.”
:) Buffy ping!
YouTube - Buffy Wicks Introduces USAservice.org
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkpjx0Obw-s
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11.Audio • Building A Field Plan with Buffy Wicks
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Recorded 8.10.07 at the San Francisco Camp Obama on Buffy Wicks’ 30th birthday.
Audio - Nevada Drive for Change - Brent Messenger Explains Why and How California Can Help Nevada
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REMINDER: Youtube is TOTALLY involved with this crew and the agenda!
Google D.C. Talks: “Tech Agenda 2009: Open Government” (1/2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvmZdWw5LEU
Google D.C. Talks: “Tech Agenda 2009: Open Government” (2/2)
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Valerie Jarrett’s shop renamed; more focus on bridge building, civic engagement
By Lynn Sweet
on May 11, 2009
WASHINGTON - President Obama is reshaping a White House office run by Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett to emphasize a mission heavy on the civic engagement side.
Chicagoans still run the operation: The Office of Public Liaison is now the Office of Public Engagement. Valerie Jarrett, Senior Adviser to the President, Christina M. Tchen, Director of OPE; and Michael Strautmanis Chief of Staff to the Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Relations and Public Engagement.
Person to watch in the operation: Obama presidential campaign grassroots and field organizer Buffy Wicks is tapped to be Deputy Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement.
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2009/05/valerie_jarretts_shop_renamed.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKmoGiDHVLs&feature=related
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Obama’s King Day theme: Service - with a cyber twist
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MO) - Monday, January 19, 2009
Author: Jake Wagman St. Louis Post-Dispatch
WASHINGTON - As statewide coordinator for Barack Obama’s presidential bid, Buffy Wicks ‘ job was to get the Democratic vote out in Missouri.
When the campaign ended, Wicks got a new charge from the president-elect: Get Americans to volunteer in their communities, if only for a day.
Wicks , who narrowly missed putting the Show-Me State in Obama’s column, was tapped to lead his push for a national day of service today, on the eve of his inauguration.
Using Internet organizing techniques honed during the campaign, Wicks has helped organize hundreds of service events in Washington and around the nation.
The effort is a glimpse of how Obama will continue to engage his massive grass-roots network of supporters for political and civic gain after he moves into the White House.
“Our grass-roots organization was built on the premise that the change we want to happen in this country is not going to happen by one man going to D.C.,” Wicks said. “This really illustrates that philosophy.”
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After the election, the call went out to Obama’s thousands of field workers that their next mission was to organize a service event.
“We are trying to take some of the politics out of it,” Wicks said. “We are reaching out not only to our campaign volunteers and our field organizers, but to a whole new group of people who want to get engaged.”
More than three dozen events are listed on the USA Service website in the St. Louis area, from a book drive benefiting expectant military mothers to a cleanup of Martin Luther King Boulevard led by state Sen. Jeff Smith, a St. Louis Democrat and an early Obama supporter.
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As for Wicks , she has no regrets about her time in Missouri. Obama lost the state by a fraction of a percentage point - about 3,900 votes -to Republican rival John McCain, the only key swing state claimed by the GOP.
“Missouri is a tough state, and we knew that from the beginning,” said Wicks , a California native. “I would do it again in a heartbeat.”
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Obama Aims to Use Campaign Energy For Civic Work - Across U.S., People Answer Call to Serve
Washington Post, The (DC) - Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Author: Peter Slevin, Washington Post Staff Writer
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As Obama enters the White House, riding a victory fueled by an unprecedented field operation, he is aiming to convert campaign energy into civic engagement. He wants to create a force that will fortify his administration’s policies and, as he likes to put it, rebuild the nation.
“Government can only do so much,” Obama said Monday as he pitched in at a D.C. high school. “If we’re waiting for someone else to do something, it never gets done.”
In recent weeks, Obama organizers have contacted hundreds of organizations around the country — “from MoveOn.org on the left to Focus on the Family on the right,” said project director Buffy Wicks — to ask them to support a service project on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Millions of people on Obama’s campaign e-mail list were urged to sign up.
The goal, Wicks said, was to “ignite a new sense of service to the country. It’s definitely going to be a priority of President Obama and his administration to ask more from people, and to get people to contribute to their community in a nonpolitical way.”
Obama’s inauguration also coincides with the creation of Organizing for America, a successor to his Obama for America campaign structure. In a video link e-mailed Saturday in support of what staff members refer to as “OFA 2.0,” Obama told supporters that “the movement you’ve built is too important to stop growing now.”
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Hey, Starwise,
It is fabulous that they have nailed Obami using the NEA as a propaganda tool - like a communist would. But they don’t mention any of this for the re-educated who will say “so what, everybody does it.”
They need to explain to the stupid why it matters and what it means when a communist president uses the “arts commmunity” to promote their agenda. We are not talking to ourselves here...we know but the average American has his head up the Left’s re-educated butt.
http://www.journalstar.com/business/article_2c604747-b3c8-5fd7-8e2f-bda45a7c6f82.html
WAL-MART FACING SLINGS AND ARROWS - GROUPS PRESSURING RETAILER GAIN POLITICAL MUSCLE
Saturday, August 20, 2005
Author: ANNE D’INNOCENZIO, Associated Press
EXCERPT
In Washington, Wake Up Wal-Mart’s full-time staff of six, which also is tapping the services of UFCW’s 1.4 million members, includes communications director Chris Kofinis, who was a strategist for former Democratic presidential candidate Wesley K. Clark; political director Buffy Wicks , formerly state organizer for Dean; and field director Jeremy Bird, formerly deputy field director for Dean.
Thanks for the ping! Caught a little of it a minute ago but then got a phone call. Can’t wait to catch up. It sounds explosive!
And see what fuss the media caused.
Buffy Wicks is a fan of:
Politicians
* Speaker Karen Bass
* Eric Garcetti
From left, Brendan Bush, Paul Blank, Jeremy Bird, Buffy Wicks and Chris Kofinis of Wake Up Wal-Mart in their office in Washington last year. The group is part of a campaign to pressure the world's largest retailer, Wal-Mart, to be a better employer and corporate citizen.
Good find!
Read on and Buffy’s involved in ‘Cash for Clunkers’ and H1N1, which is mighty scary—but explains a lot!
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